Improvement in bracelets



H. A. WILLIAMS.

Bracelets.

N0. 143,109. Patented September23,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, OF MANSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRACELETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,109, dated September 23, 1873 application filed June 7, i873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, of Mansfield, Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Bracelets, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in the union of a rubber buckle or body plate and a series of plates composing the bracelet, in the manner to be set forth.

Figure l is a plan vi'eW. Fig. 2 is a section.

The body of the buckle is of any suitable ornamental pattern, and is secured to a plate, a, by means of an elastic cord, as shown in Fig. 2. The tongue of the buckle iits in a notch in one of the sides of the body, and is secured in its place by the elastic cord.

The plates a a are held together by the elastic cord in a well-known manner. The plates b b do not differ from the plates a a, except that they have holes through them to receive the tongue of the buckle.

When the braceletis put together the rubber cord is passed, in the usual manner, through one of the holes in the plates Which make the body of the bracelet, then through one part of thehole in thebuckle, then through thetongue, then through the other part of the hole in the buckle, and then through theother hole in the plates before mentioned, so that the `Whole bracelet is held together by theV rubber cord When its ends are properly fastened. The end of the tongue which is attached to the body of the buckle is preferably made square, and

the hole in this tongue is so made, in relation V to the end of the tongue and the notch in which it ts, that, as the tongue is thrown back, the shape of its end forces it somewhat out of its notch, and the rubber cord holding it in is thereby somewhat stretched. Thus the elasticity ot' the rubber cord acts to keep the tongue in its proper position.

The advantage of this bracelet is that the buckle is ornamental in appearance and cheap in construction, the expense in putting the parts together being very small.

What I claim as my invention is The combination of the plates a and b with the body of the buckle and its tongue, when constructed and secured together substantially as described.

Signed this 2d day of June, 1873..

HARRISON A. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses WILLIAM W. KNAPP, V. B. HODGES. 

